Indian Lime Spiced Chicken Wings
Indian Lime Spiced Chicken Wings These chicken wings are everything you love about tandoori chicken and crispy roasted chicken skin all in one bite. I love, love, love Greek yogurt as a marinade on skin on chicken, the flavor from any spices you mix into yogurt...
Feed the Family while Away on a Cruise
So excited!! Next week I am leaving on a girlie bonding cruise with my mom, aunt, and newest cousin: Rachel (she just married my favorite cousin Josh). I will be leaving my husband and the two girls to fend for themselves. I feel a little guilty that while I am...
Sweet Potato Fruit Dip
I am always looking for a healthy after school snacks for the girls, and this sweet potato fruit dip seems to fill the bill plus they actually ate it. I have been making a white bean hummus for a while and while most of the kids like it a few flat out refuse, they...
Overnight Whole Grain Success with Oatmeal
Most days everyone in the house has to be out the door by 7am. And we have a diverse set of appetites: a 13 year old looking for an early morning sugar rush we would rather she did not have, a chronically late 16 year old ballerina that needs calories for 6 hours of...
Braised Sweet and Sour Red Cabbage with Country Style Pork Spareribs
These braised spareribs are very yummy and very simple meal to make. The red cabbage so colorful and flavorful, the flavors so big that you can use this meal for a dinner party but it’s so little work that you can throw it together on a week night. If you really want...
Chorizo Baked Black Beans
These black beans are a modification of an awesome one pot chicken meal that Emeril Lagasse has in his cookbook: Sizzling Skillets and Other One-Pot Wonders, chicken and black beans with chorizo. I loved the black beans that are the base of the chicken dish but I...
Italian Pesto Meatloaf
I have been making the same meatloaf with a sweet and spicy tomato and honey glaze for a while now, and I was getting sick of eating it even if my family was not. Thus I decided it was time for something new: pesto meatloaf. The cup of left over pesto from my last...
Beer Marinated Grilled Chicken Fajitas
Around here we love a nice TexMex meal either at home or in a restaurant. Chicken fajitas are one of the favorites, but at $15-$20 per person eating fajitas in a restaurant is always kind of depressing. The chicken is bland or dry and the veggies over cooked, but...
The Grocery Shopping Odyssey Continues Part 3
This is the third article (read the first and second stories) about grocery shopping inspired by my post honeymoon restocking trip. I hope my theories on tackling the grocery store help you get more for your money and puts an end to those annoying one-item mid week...
Pasta alla Vodka Plus
Pasta alla Vodka Plus I like a nice hot bowl of pasta with a rich creamy pink sauce once in a while, and alla vodka sauce is one of my favorite variations of the pink sauce. Adding the meat from a half a leftover roasted chicken and a pint of mushrooms made a lovely...
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